INSKCTS AFFIiCTING PARK AND WOODLAND TREES OOS 



Neomysia pullata Sa\' 

 This, one of our nietliinn sized to larj^e huly beetles, 

 was taken in small numbers on hard pine at Karner 

 in 1901. One specimen was cajjlureil June 4 and 

 another |idv S. Fhe species maybe recognizetl b\- 

 its heail beiny nearh' black, or with very few light 

 markinj^s on it and more specially by the nearly uni- ¥\g. 15, 

 form yellowish red or yellowish brown winv,'' covers. 



Hyperaspis binotata Say 



A minute, black, red-spotted lady beetle less than ''g inch in len^rth, 

 was met with on scrub oak at Karner, May 14, 1902. It was bred in some 

 numbers October 3, 1902 from a branch of scrub oak badl\- infested with a 

 species of Lecanium found at North Chatham X. Y. July 6. It probabl)' 

 preys on such soft-bodied insects as it can overcome as well as on scale 

 insects. The species appears to be rare in this State. It has been 

 recorded by Casey from New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Indiana, 

 Wisconsin, and Dr Smith lists it from New Jersey, where it occurs on pine 

 trees in spring- and on willows in summer. It probably ap]5ears in Dr 

 Hamilton's list of southwestern Pennsylvania, Dury's list of Cincinnati 

 species, and in Ulkes list of forms occurring in the District of Columbia, 

 under the name of H. s i q- n a t a Oliv. 



Limonius quercinus Say. This beetle was beaten in June from scrub 

 oak at Karner. 



Hydnocera verticalis Say 



A slender, yellow-lieaded, blackish ami yellowish lieetle occurs in early spring on 

 low shrubs and trees. 



This species was reared from a larva found in an oak gall at 

 Normanskill near Albany, May 10, 1902. 



